Silver Screen Icon Quotes

I can never describe myself as a movie star. I don't know when that happens but it's certainly not me.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

I've watched people in these movies like Bradley Cooper in 'Yes Man' become these giant stars themselves.

My first-ever celebrity crush was Val Kilmer from 'Top Secret!' Not his biggest film, but I remember loving him in that movie.

Nicolas Cage is such a phenomenal actor. I've been a fan of his forever. I can't tell you how many times I've seen 'Moonstruck' and 'Wild At Heart.'

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.